Elizabeth S. Lutes & Vicki M. Nielsen

Elizabeth Lutes is Keynote Speaker at Compliance key Inc. She is Senior Vice President, has been leading Transition Services, Inc. for fourteen years. She is also responsible for human resources, planning, and communication for TSI's parent company, the RVI Group.Prior to joining the TSI and RVI teams in 2003, Elizabeth spent 20 years working in private, non-profit, and corporate environments empowering people to see new possibilities and achieve new levels of personal and organizational performance. For 12 years Elizabeth directed the Youth at Risk program, a community-based, volunteer-intensive transformational program for young people at risk, active in 25 cities in the US and in the UK. She then moved into the corporate world, bringing her facilitation, leadership coaching, and consulting skills to large-scale organization transformation initiatives. Elizabeth has attended Yale University and holds a B.A. from San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

When it comes to planning layoffs, decision makers tend to take their old severance policy off the shelf, dust it off, and re-apply the generic formula to the situation at hand. This may seem like a safe strategy for an uncomfortable topic, but by leaving severance programs so largely unexamined, many major considerations for a Reduction in Force may be overlooked, perhaps resulting in greater organization liability, unnecessary spendin........